Are your students critical thinkers? Do they ask questions to dig deeper and develop their understanding? In The Power of Their Ideas (2002), Deborah Meier describes five “intellectual habits,” or lenses, for learning: “evidence (how do you know that?), viewpoint (who said it and why?), cause and effect (what led to it, what else happened), and hypothesizing (what if, supposing that),” and significance (who cares?) (page 41). These habits of critical thinking are more important than any content